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NVILLIAM R. OLOUGH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WIRE HOOK AND TACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,515, dated December 14, 1880, Application filed October 14, 1880. (No model.)'

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. OLoUeH, of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Articles of Wire, ofwhich the following is a specification, referencev being had to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to an improvement in articles of wire 5 and it consists, essentially, in

the production of articles made of a single,

strand of wire adapted to be attached to or to enter a base, and constructed by coiling the wire into the contour of ahelix point in such relation to the sharpened endthat it may serve as a stop or head.

The objectof the inventionis the production of articles of wire having a helical coilformed of the same strand of wire of which the article is made, which coil, while effecting other important results, serves as an efficient stop or escutcheon, and at the same time adds to the ornamental appearance of the article.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown the invention embodied in tacks and in hooks.

Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and each show a front ous views showing modifications ot' the same articles, which are described in detail hereinafter. Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 each illustrates the top and side of several modified forms of tacks embodying the invention.

The various devices shown will be readily understood from the drawings.

The hook shown in Fig. 1 is made from a single strand of wire,one end of which is bent into a hook, a, while the other end is carried upward above the pointof the hook and formed into a coiled stop or head, b, the extremity of the wire being extended outward from the center of and at right angles to the coil b and sharpened, so that it may be driven into a wall or other base (without interfering with or bending the hook) by pressing on the coil b with the thumb, or by striking said coil with a weight or-hammer. This device maybe employed for any purpose to which it is adapted.

Thedevice shown in Fig. 2 consists of the usual hook a, formed at the center of a strand of wire,from which the ends thereof are carried upward, and each correspondingly coiled, the

extremities of the said ends being passed toward the rear from the center of the coils and sharpened, forming points d, whereby the hook may be secured to a base, as above described. The hook having two coils or heads, b, arranged side by side, as shown, is ornate in appearance, and will sustain a relatively heavy weight even when the points or tacks d are not very long.

I In Fig. 3 the end of the wire is carried downward from the center of the coil or head I), when it is doubled upon itself and formed into the hook a, after which it passes rearward through the coil or head, terminating in apoint.

The device represented in Fig. 4 consists of the hook-a, and a head, 1), formed of two coils arranged face to face. The strand of wire of which this article is made is first doubled upon itself, and then its two parallel limbs coiled face to face. After a coil or head of sufficient size has been constructed the hook to is formed, and, if preferred, one of the free ends of the strand may be carried down and formed into a screw or point, as indicated in dotted lines, or the center of the coils forming the head 11 may be left open, as shown. If preferred, the points 01 may be threadedin lieu of sharpened, so as to operate as ascrew; and, if desired, the upper ends of the hooks a may be supplied with small knobs, as shown in Fig. l, which will add to their ornamental character.

By cutting the hooked ends a from the coils or heads 12, (shown in Figs. 1 and 2,) the remainder (the heads and their sharpened or threaded points) are made to constitute tacks formed of a single strand of wire and having a coiled head, as shown in Figs. 5, 7, and 8.

In Fig. 7 the head of the tack is made conical instead of flat, and in Fig. 8 the point of the tack is elongated, which, however, differs from Fig. 5 only in degree. In Fig. 6 the tack has two points, d, one extending from the center of the head b, the other formed by the end of the wire at the outside of the coil being bent downward and sharpened.

In both the hook and the tack formations the sharpened ends d and the coils b are the same, possessing analogous functions.

The devices above described may be made of flattened or partially-flattened wire, or portions of the wire after the article has been formed may be flattened-as, for instance, the

tack may be formed of round wire, and its head or coil then subjected to heavy pressure in a die or other instrument and flattened, leaving the point round, as before.

Heretofore a nail or tack having a head and shank made of the same strand of wire has been formed; but in this instance the head has been in the form of an open single ring perpendicular to and concentric, or nearly so, with the shank. The advantage of my nail or tack over this construction is that the head is a flat coil \vound fold upon told from center to circumference, whereby a broad solid head is formed, for the purposes hereinbetore described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A tack or nall formed of a continuous piece of wire, and consisting of a tlat helical coil wound fold upon fold from center to circumference, one or both of the free ends of the wire being bent at right angles to the said coil and pointed or threaded, substantially as set forth.

2. An article formed of a single strand of wire, consisting of a helical coil from which depends a hook, the coil and hook beingmade of the same strand of Wire.

3. An article of wire consisting of the hook a, coil 1;, and sharpened or threaded point d.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing improvement in articles of wire, as above described, I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of October, 1880.

\VILLIAM R. CLOUGH.

\Yitnesses:

CHAS. U. GILL, t). M. BUCK. 

